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Review

Shiri opens with a stunning, insanely brutal training montage during which North Korean military elite hone their skills on hapless prisoners. The toughest of this lot is Hee, a kick-ass female soldier who is an exceptional, prolific assassin. After a series of vicious murders, two South Korean cops discover that Hee is involved in a terrorist plot to bring about the unification of the two Koreas, and set out to stop her. An exciting cop thriller, Shiri never actually matches the sheer intensity of that opening, but remains engrossing due as much to the characters' relationships as its first-rate action scenes. Perhaps more "American" than it needs to be, Shiri is still leagues better than most American thrillers, and was a monster hit in its native land, even out-grossing Titanic at the box office. (Korean with English subtitles)